{"id":188700,"date":"2026-03-12T14:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/188700\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T14:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:02:08","slug":"rising-gas-prices-pinch-jacksonville-ride-hailing-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/188700\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising gas prices pinch Jacksonville ride\u2011hailing drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2026\/03\/10\/florida-gas-average-jumps-to-345-amid-iran-conflict-here-are-ways-to-improve-fuel-efficiency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2026\/03\/10\/florida-gas-average-jumps-to-345-amid-iran-conflict-here-are-ways-to-improve-fuel-efficiency\/\">Rising gas prices are squeezing drivers across the city<\/a>, and those who drive for a living say the higher pump costs are cutting into already thin earnings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Jacksonville\u2019s average gas price has climbed to $3.74, and ride\u2011hail drivers say they are having to rethink routes and budgets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cAs an Uber driver, I actually have to go back to work and really lock in on my business plan and make sure that my math was equipping because you can\u2019t just keep driving cars around and you\u2019re spending more money than what you\u2019re making,\u201d Caren Island, an Uber driver said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">As of Thursday morning, AAA said the average price statewide is $3.72.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Forbes reported that the Trump administration plans to tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The report said the Department of Energy would release 172 million barrels from the reserve and that deliveries would take about 120 days, according to Secretary of Energy Chris Wright.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Experts advise drivers to check fuel\u2011price apps such as GasBuddy, limit unnecessary trips and smooth out starts and stops to improve fuel efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 Rising gas prices are squeezing drivers across the city, and those who drive for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4805,11248,82633,116,118,117],"class_list":["post-188700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-gas","tag-gas-prices","tag-iran-war","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}